History VideoGame / PuzzleQuest

* '''Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords''': The first and most popular game in the series, based on the award-winning ''Warlords'' series of TurnBasedStrategy games.\\

A remastered port, titled '''Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns''', would release on Nintendo Switch with additional content not available in previous releases, including additional playable classes and missions.
* '''Puzzle Quest: Galactrix''': a science fiction-themed follow-up, released in February 2009. Your character is a newly-minted recruit from a MegaCorp that trains and employs those gifted with psionic abilities. While on a routine investigative mission, you and your mentor, Sable, stumble across a decimated research station and evidence of a galaxy-spanning threat. The game uses a hexagonal grid rather than an orthogonal one, and the direction that gems enter the field usually depends on the direction the selected piece moved. It suffered from similar supply shortages upon release.
* '''Puzzle Kingdoms''' was released in May 2009. It takes place in a remixed version of ''Warlord's'' world of Etheria and adds {{RTS}}-style troop and resource management to the mix. You play as the heir to your small kingdom's leadership. You take it upon yourself to find the source of the sudden famine that has stricken your land, only to stumble across a plot by the god of famine. It features a puzzle style similar to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Trozei''.
* '''Puzzle Chronicles''' was released mid-April 2010 for many systems, featuring a desert theme and a gameplay style similar to ''Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo''. In it, you play as a member of a desert tribe looking to free his enslaved people and gain revenge on the slavers that captured them. ''Puzzle Quest 2'' appears to be based on this game.
* '''Puzzle Quest 2''' is a true sequel to the original. Styled more on {{MMORPG}}s, including a town hub and [=NPCs=] with exclamation points over their heads who give you quests, it was released on June 22, 2010 for DS, Windows, [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iPhone and iPad]], and the Xbox Live Arcade. This is a considerably simplified and easier version, though possibly with more balanced pvp.
* '''Puzzle Quest 3''' is another sequel, this one made with 3D graphics. It's available in Early Acceess for Android.

** Not quite game breaking, but the original UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable release was misprogrammed so that allies' abilities never activated.
** The UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch remaster used to give foes which are about level 5 or higher absurd amounts of HP if you've set the system to a non-English language, with foes often having 1200 or more HP, effectively making them unbeatable (grinding doesn't help, as they gain 300 more HP with each level). People usually found the glitch when fighting the Rogue Skeleton or the Giant Rat. Thankfully, this bug has been fixed quickly.

* BraggingRightsReward: Beating the {{Optional Boss}}es in the handheld and retail PC versions gives you a rather insignificant amount of gold and XP, considering the lengths you'll need to go to in order to defeat them. You don't even get the achievements of the UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade, [=iOS=], or Platform/{{Steam}} versions.

* '''Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords''': The first and most popular game in the series, based on the award-winning ''Warlords'' series of TurnBasedStrategy games.\\

* BraggingRightsReward: Beating the {{Optional Boss}}es in the handheld and retail PC versions gives you a rather insignificant amount of gold and XP, considering the lengths you'll need to go to in order to defeat them. You don't even get the achievements of the UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade, [=iOS=], or UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} versions.

* BraggingRightsReward: Beating the {{Bonus Boss}}es in the handheld and retail PC versions gives you a rather insignificant amount of gold and XP, considering the lengths you'll need to go to in order to defeat them. You don't even get the achievements of the UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade, [=iOS=], or UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} versions.

* BonusBoss: Five of them (Kurak the polar bear, the Yeti, the Cave Ogre, the Arch Lich, and the Green Dragon). They're unlocked automatically as you level up, so you can tackle them at your leisure or not at all.

* MightyGlacier: Templars, especially later when you gain access to Templar-only plate armor and the Tower Shield. You'll be able to outlast anything short of [[BonusBoss the Green Dragon]]. (And you'll even be able to outlast the Green Dragon with the right setup.)

** The Yeti has Crushing Kill, which deals 999 damage at 65 red. He's also the second BonusBoss you can face. The Iron Giant has it as well, but doesn't have the Yeti's rapid red mana gain to go with it.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The various Vice Boxes.

* TrainingDummy: The Practice Dummy.

* ConMan: Pezt

* HumanityIsSuperior
* HumansAreBastards
* IdiotHero / NiceJobBreakingItHero: See OmniscientMoralityLicense.

* PortalNetwork
* RecycledInSPACE
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Soulless. Really more of Scary Dogmatic Cyborgs.

* TetrisEffect: Less so than the first game, thanks to the minigames and changes.
* WrenchWench: Kirine and Lydia.

* OneHitPointWonder: Imps.

* TacticalRockPaperScissors

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: So are the [[ALoadOfBull Minotaurs]].

* ALoadOfBull: Minotaurs play an important part in the game. These include party member Sunspear and Lord Sartek, the minotaurs' god, who has the form of a huge minotaur himself. Also, among the bad guys there are minotaur slavers, undead Skelotaurs (minotaur skeletons), undead minotaur Doomknights, and even a giant clockwork Mechataur.

** The UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch remaster gives foes which are about level 5 or higher absurd amounts of HP if you've set the system to a non-English language, with foes often having 1200 or more HP, effectively making them unbeatable (grinding doesn't help, as they gain 300 more HP with each level). People usually find the glitch when fighting the Rogue Skeleton or the Giant Rat.

After a PC demo was released, the game was ported to the Nintendo DS and PSP and released in early 2007. It performed surprisingly well with players and critics and ended up being ported to pretty much every system, including an expansion for the Xbox 360 and iPhone versions.

** In the other, using the Home button to close the game in the middle of a cutscene could cause the event flag not to trigger and leave you unable to cancel the mission and restart, possibly resulting in an UnwinnableByMistake scenario. In the other versions, the game would simply restart the cutscene.

* MultipleEndings: Just a minor one, but a choice at the end affects one thing and determines whether you get a epilogue about HumansAreSpecial or NotSoDifferent HumansAreBastards.